[TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX")

[William Pechter]

VMS source fiche was very common of sites owned by large corporations.  Their IT  staff used it to research bugs... and as sample code for writing their own drivers etc... 


-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net>
To: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 8:53
Subject: Re: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX")



On 3/15/2017 8:45 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
> Arthur's behavior, I think really proves my point....   you were able 
> to do that because UNIX was (is) open and was being studies and used 
> by a lot of people had folks did have access to the source. You did 
> not see VMS, NT or the like having academic books written about them, 
> and used as models in OS classes. You would not have been able to do 
> that with NT or VMS.
>

Believe it or not, somewhere I believe I have microfiche of VMS 4.0 
source code somewhere. Which reminds me, I need to do something with that.

It came from the same place as the other source code I have.